Publications by authors named "Mohan Bansal"

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) in children is a rapidly evolving field, as children become more accustomed to interacting with virtual assistants, such as Amazon Echo, Cortana, and other smart speakers, and it has advanced the human-computer interaction in recent generations. Furthermore, non-native children are observed to exhibit a diverse range of reading errors during second language (L2) acquisition, such as lexical disfluency, hesitations, intra-word switching, and word repetitions, which are not yet addressed, resulting in ASR's struggle to recognize non-native children's speech. The main objective of this study is to develop a non-native children's speech recognition system on top of feature-space discriminative models, such as feature-space maximum mutual information (fMMI) and boosted feature-space maximum mutual information (fbMMI).

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Children may benefit from automatic speaker identification in a variety of applications, including child security, safety, and education. The key focus of this study is to develop a closed-set child speaker identification system for non-native speakers of English in both text-dependent and text-independent speech tasks in order to track how the speaker's fluency affects the system. The multi-scale wavelet scattering transform is used to compensate for concerns like the loss of high-frequency information caused by the most widely used mel frequency cepstral coefficients feature extractor.

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The Upper AeroDigestive Tract (UADT) cancers are most common, invasive and have high morbidity. The two leading risk factors, smoking and alcohol, are well known but there is a long list of other risk factors which are not that well talked about. The aim of this study was to ascertain the dietary factors which could be important in their prevention.

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Computer-based medical diagnosis expert systems are considered both accurate and educationally helpful in most cases. Dizziness and vertigo are among the most common complaints however E.N.

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Unlabelled: It is pertinent to have a Tuning Fork Hearing Test that stand-alone can detect severities (Mild, Moderate, Severe and Profound) and the types of hearing losses (Conductive, Sensorineural, and Mixed). A novel 3-Step Tuning Fork Hearing Test (3-STFHT) was attempted for the first time that could detect both the types and the severities of hearing losses. The study was aimed to describe the method of the 3-STFHT and evaluate its clinical utility and reliability.

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Otorhinolaryngology Malignancies in Children: A Case Series.

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

December 2020

Background And Objectives: Ear, nose and throat (E.N.T.

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Objectives: It is imperative to acquire a simple, objective, and mathematical method for the assessment of facial nerve palsy which can be universally accepted and implemented. A grading scale which is convenient, continuous and economical was attempted for the first time for global and region-specific assessment of facial nerve palsy.

Study Design: Hospital-based observational study.

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Computer-based medical diagnosis expert systems, when used by clinicians, familiar with the limitations of the system, were found both accurate and educationally helpful. Vertigo is one of the most common complaints of the patients and the specialists who manage these patients are not easily available. Diagnostic expert system can help clinicians including general practitioners in providing reasonable diagnostic suggestions while dealing with patients with vertigo/dizziness when the specialist doctors are not available.

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The Directly Observed Procedural/Practical Skill (DOPS) is a relatively new but reliable tool for formative assessment. The lack of desired awareness regarding DOPS among the Otorhinolayngologists of India made us to conduct this study. The aim of the study was introduction of DOPS in Oto-rhino-laryngology Department.

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Though granular myringitis (GM) is not a very rare disease it does not have any classification. Its exact etiology is not known. The granulations on tympanic membrane also occur in association with other lesions of external auditory canal (EAC) and middle ear.

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Teflon Implants Versus Titanium Implants in Stapes Surgery.

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

March 2016

Otosclerosis is the most common cause of bilateral gradually progressive conductive hearing loss with normal tympanic membrane and Eustachian tube. Otosclerosis surgical treatment is one of the most gratifying operations in Otorhinolaryngology. It is not only the surgical techniques but also the prosthesis which are evolving in the attempt of providing best hearing results.

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